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Rouge

As soon as Amy left the shop I paid for my melted ice-cream, though it hardly seemed worth it, and I flew back home as fast as I could. I changed into my favourite heart top and black jeans with knee-length white boots, ran a brush through my hair and applied some make up.

I was ready in record time and I flew to the jewellery shop to find that I was five minutes early. I sat down on a nearby bench to wait for Amy, and to my surprise I was soon joined by Shadow.

"Hey," he said, looking surprised. "I didn't expect to see you here Rouge."

"Same thing right back at ya!" I said, with only a hint of flirtiness. I had been thinking through what Knuckles had said to me before he walked off, and decided that Shadow wasn't that bad.

"Who are you waiting for then?" he asked. "Wait, don't tell me, Amy."

I laughed. "Is it that obvious?"

He laughed too. "Not really. It's just that Sonic said he'd meet me at the shoe shop to get my shoes fixed, and he'd never leave Amy on her own. So I figured she was coming here with you. I mean, Cream is busy with Tails and Blaze is with Silver. That leaves you."

I sighed. "Well, I'm on my own now. Knuckles dumped me before it even started."

Shadow looked at me oddly, and said something that sounded like, "I wouldn't do that."

I decided to ignore that comment, and turned my attention to the crowds of people who were heading to the shops. After a quick scan, I could see that Amy was not among them.

Risking a quick glance at Shadow, who looked a bit red, I could see that he was doing the same thing.

"I don't see Sonic anywhere. Do you think he and Amy have set us up?"

"What?" I exclaimed. "No, I don't think Amy would do that, not when she knows about the whole Knuckles thing."

"It's possible. They could have planned the whole thing. I mean, what are the odds. Amy asks you to meet her at the jewellery shop at exactly two o'clock, and at the same time Sonic asks me to meet him in the shoe shop, which is right next to the jewellery shop, at two o'-"

"Two o'clock!" I interrupted him. "Amy knows about me and Knuckles, and Sonic knows about your- err- worries." I trailed off.

We looked at each other for a long time. I didn't know why. It just felt nice.

After a while, Shadow broke the stare and stood up. I mirrored him.

"Well," said Shadow, "if Sonic and Amy really have gone to all this trouble, then I think it would be wrong to disappoint them."

Thoughts were chasing each other around my brain. Is he going to ask me out?

Shadow turned to me, and I treated him to one of my flirtatious smiles. He seemed to take this as encouragement, as he took a deep breath and said. "Rouge, would you like to be my girlfriend?"

Shadow

Yes! I've finally done it. I've gone and asked out a girl. And Rouge, of all girls!

I looked at her trying to gauge her reaction. She looked slightly stunned, but happy at the same time. Then she smiled.

"Of course Shadow!"

She closed the gap between us and gave me a hug. It felt nice. As we walked off down to the beach talking and laughing, she suddenly stood on tip-toe and gave me a kiss on the cheek.

Amy

"Oh Sonic, it worked! Shadouge has taken off!" I said excitedly as we watched Shadow and Rouge walk off together. "That's so romantic!"

Sonic looked at me and smiled, then he picked me up and ran down to the beach with me in his arms. He ran straight into the sea with me, and then let me go.

"Hey!" I shouted as I fell into the water. "What was that for?"

He was about to reply when a shout came from the beach. I turned to see Knuckles motioning for us to come over to him. That was one echidna I really didn't want to see after he was so mean to Rouge. I looked at Sonic, who seemed apprehensive to say the least.

"Go on." I said to him when he looked at me for reassurance. He sighed, gave me a quick kiss and swam rapidly to shore. I followed slower, so by the time I had reached the beach, Sonic and Knuckles were already talking. From the look on Sonic's face, the news wasn't good.

Knuckles saw me approaching, said one more thing to Sonic, and took off. Sonic turned around to me, and I saw that his face had gone pale.

"Sonic, what is it?"

He just sat down and stared out to sea.

"Sonic, what's happened. Tell me!"

He looked at me again, and just said, "Knuckles loves Rouge."

I sat down.

Ah.

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